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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1898
Page
8
The Rush announces ready supply to meet patrons wants with a full stock of pure drugs. A superior line includes toilet essentials perfumes soaps cosmetics and fancy articles. The cigar counter features select brands of fine quality cigars for sale.
A historic exhibit hails The Pioneer Limited trains showing electric lighting with a Westinghouse engine, luxury car features, and elaborate interiors in San Domingo mahogany. The display touts safety, battery backup, and high costs, noting the train set price around 4,600.
Clipped fragment announces Rock Island Route travel to Alaska via Port Perry and Pact Coast ports. Includes contact details for nearest Rock Island agent. Also advertises Best Salve for cuts and skin eruptions sold at Draper & Loughlin Co’s Drug Store for 25 cents a box with money back guarantee.
Promotion offers sixteen pages of popular songs with full sheet music for piano or organ plus three months of American Popular Music in exchange for three or more performer names and fifteen cents, mailed to Popular Music Co., Indianapolis Indiana.
The item discusses cad liver oil preparations and a claimed remedy blending oil with lipophosphites and glycerine for healing. It recounts a patient with consumption who improved after using Dr. King's New Discovery, noting free trials and the Draper & Loughlin Drug Store offering large bottles priced at 50 cents and 1.00.
The Des Moines Daily News reports passing the 20,009 circulation milestone and aims for 39,000 as the only daily paper claiming a full year of publication. An advertisement touts Electric Sitters tonic with a testimonial of dramatic health recovery in three weeks, priced 50 cents per bottle from Draper and Loughlin & Co.
Legal notice reports an adjourned annual meeting of Perry Telephone Company stockholders held January 21 1898 in Perry Iowa. Amend Article VIII by removing Five Hundred Dollars and inserting Twenty per cent of capital stock. President A W Briss and Secretary HL Tuomay authorize signing and acknowledgment for stockholders.
Doctors now agree that consumption is curable with fresh air proper food and Scott Emulsion of cod liver oil with hypophosphites. To cure weight must be maintained and if thin must gain. The ad cites Scott's Emulsion as best for keeping health and mentions a gag store anecdote and miscellaneous notes on lotus symbolism and weather lore.
Clock and watch makers shift to cyclometer manufacturing and sales as cycling grows. Cyclometers shrink in cost and size, with one mile register and varying accuracy tied to tire firmness. Demand remains lively and rivals encroach on the watch trade per New Orleans Times-Democrat. Appellate courts often grant new trials due to perceived legal knowledge gaps. Sunday School humor ends with garbled foreign phrases and references to Milic tachstraf and Gesondheitsrecksichten in New York.
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